Page 76 of Her Intense Protector

“Can’t you track the last place Samantha’s phone was before it was turned off?” Asher asked Kane.

“It hasn’t been turned off,” Kane said grimly. “If I had to guess, the SIM card has been destroyed. You’re dealing with real professionals this time, or they knew how you tracked her last time and learned from it.”

Ezio’s phone buzzed with the cop’s information. He called Sy’s cell phone number.

“This is Detective Morgan.”

Ezio put it on speaker so the rest of the team could hear.

“This is Ezio Stark. Samantha Brooks was abducted yesterday, outside her office in Norfolk. She got into an SUV that claimed to be her Uber.”

“How do you know it wasn’t?”

“It was the last time anybody ever saw or spoke to her. Since then, the SIM card in her phone has been destroyed and we have no way of tracking her.”

There was a long pause.

“You realize this is good news, don’t you?” Sy Morgan asked.

“Yes,” Ezio said reluctantly. “She could have been killed outright instead. The fact that they kidnapped her means we still have a chance at rescuing her.”

“Exactly.”

“It’s the game-runner, who has her. Have Carl or Murray told you anything about him yet?” Ezio demanded to know.

“No, they seem too afraid.”

“Why?”

“That’s my question too.” Sy’s voice was filled with frustration. “Normally guys like these would have rolled by now.”

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Kane talking to Asher and then picking up his phone and making a call.

“Sy, keep me informed if anything else changes, okay?”

“I’m putting out an all-points bulletin for Samantha after we get off this call. I want her found, and I’m going to get more men involved on finding the game-runner.”

“I appreciate that.” Ezio wanted off the phone to find out what Kane was doing.

“You’ve got it. I’ll call you the minute something pops,” Sy assured him.

“Thanks.”

Ezio pressed end on his phone. Then he motioned to Kane, who put down his phone and put it on speaker. A young-sounding girl was speaking.

“…my boyfriend Brody and I both saw her get into the SUV.”

“Can you describe it? Can you describe the men?” Kane asked easily.

Ezio understood that Kane didn’t want to scare the girl, he wanted to keep her talking.

“I can describe the guy who was holding open the door for Samantha. He was about her height in her heels, so maybe five-ten. He was white, and wearing a terrible off-the-rack black suit, white shirt, black tie, and his shoes were wrong, they had rubber soles. The other I didn’t get too good of a look of, because he just went from the back seat to the driver’s seat. Everything was off. But what would you expect with Uber drivers?”

“There were two of them?” Ezio asked sharply.

“Yeah, Brody thought that was weird, too. I told Toni when she asked me, because he had mentioned it.”

“You’re sure neither of them was Kevin, right?” Kane asked.